Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon. Nintendo and some other companies do but not me. Never me. Only the character Daniel is my very own creation.
Well it's my first attempt to write a story so please be nice to me ;) Actually I know that there are some errors in but I hope it won't disturb that much. So now: Have fun with the first chapter.
The Viridian Incident
Memories
It
was a clear sunny day. Some pidgeots were flying through the sky and
beneath them walked a boy. He was 1, 97 metres tall, 19 years old,
had dark brown hair and wearing a white-blue shirt and jeans. On his
back a big Backpack. An Observer might think
he was one of the
thousands of Pokemontrainers who wants to get Pokemonmaster but in
fact he wasn't.
His name was Daniel and in his opinion no one had
the right to catch a life and let it fight against other pathetic
souls with the same destiny. Daniel was on his way from Cerulean to
Viridian City. He just finished school some months ago and decided to
get a job somewhere far away from home.
He liked his home in
Cerulean City but it was time to get away, to get independent from
his parents and start a new life. But of course things are not as
easy as it seems.
A
loud bang followed the explosion which destroyed the whole Veridian
Gym. Smoke was rising above the remains of the Gym.
People were
running around in panic. But no one saw the white beam moving through
the sky. From time to time some
pieces of metal were falling down
from the head of it. After a while it got slower and finally stopped
for a moment before
it felt down from the sky.
Daniel
was walking apart the trail when he suddenly heard something rushing
through the branches and bird Pokemon
flying away panicked. How
humans are he was curios about what might happened there. He made his
way through the forest where
he met a few scared Caterpies. "What
has frightened them this much?" he thought. Daniel continued
his way. What he found was strange and...and...pretty? Directly in
front of him laid the strangest creature he had ever seen and it
looked seriously injured. Daniel stood there for at least 2 minutes
and stared down to the purple-white and unconscious body of a Pokemon
he never had heard about.
Slowly Daniel approached the creature.
It - or better said she - looked really strange.
Two necks, short
white fur, three spherical fingers on each hand, pretty breasts, long
catlike legs and a long purple tail. Somehow cute...
A
few Hours later.
Daniel didn't exactly know why but he couldn't
leave this poor creature. He never had much to do with Pokemon
but
something held him there and now he was sitting on a tree trunk in
front of a fire he made when it was getting colder.
A few pairs of
eyes were watching him out of the darkness around him. Suddenly he
heard someone moaning. "Finally awake huh?"
Daniel
giggled when he saw the Pokemon opened its eyes and watched Daniel
frightened. "Hm. Do you want something to eat?" he asked
and gave her one of his candy bars. He wasn't good at cooking so it
was all he had to eat on his journey. She took it nervously and took
a bite.
"I know Pokemon shouldn't eat such things but I don't
have anything else." Daniel said and
stared into the fire.
"Thank you" a soft and clear voice said. "Nah"
Daniel shook his head. He was tired and already began to hea-
"Who...who are you?" the voice said again.
Daniel
couldn't say where it came from. It was like he heard it in his
head.
Two questioning eyes stared in his direction. "Uh.
Sorry. Did you SAY something!"
"Who are you?"
the voice in his head asked again and hell it wasn't one of
his.
Daniel looked onto the use-by date of his candy bar.
Everything ok. Was he getting crazy now?
"Uh...My name is
Daniel" he said a bit frightened.
-Silence-
"Are
you the one speaking in my head?"
"Yes"
Bad
situation. Nobody prepared Daniel to make conversation with a
Pokemon. Things like this should only happen in movies or
silly
Stories by even more silly people. Hell...that was too much.
"Um.
and what's your name?" he asked nervous
"I don't
know..."
"Oh. Uhm. I guess you can't remember what
happened to you?"
"No. What happened?"
Strange,
pretty and without memory. This was getting worse every minute.
"I
don't know. That's why I asked." Daniel sighed. "Can
you remember anything? What kind of Pokemon are you?"
The
catlike creature on the ground was thinking. Daniel looked
expectationful.
"No, I don't know…" it
answered.
"Hmph." Daniel rubbed his head. "You…you
should sleep. Maybe your memory will come back during night." He
sighed again and unpacked his sleeping bag. A few moments later he
lay on his back. The creature shivered in the cold and looked to
Daniel. "No" he thought.
-Silence again-
"Damn
OK. Take this cover." he said and got a cover out of his
backpack and threw it over to her. With a smile on her lips she
approached to him and caught the cover. She lay down next to him and
stared with her blue eyes directly to Daniel. But he was fed up for
today and turned around trying to sleep. "Thank
you…Daniel"
Again this voice in his head.
"No
problem…I guess" he answered and soon he fell asleep
An
Ocean. Bubbles were rising to the surface. A voice whispered "Who
am I?" It was a dream. It couldn't be anything else.
Daniel looked through the eyes of someone else and the voice
whispered "What am I?"
A small and catlike
creature swam through the water. It broke through the surface of the
water. "I am ready…to be, to be" Was it the small, now
flying cat which spoke? No. It was a different voice. It was soft
and… female?
The view changed. Darkness. No air to breath. "This
is not the same." The voice said. It was close now. Slowly the
eyes Daniel looked through opened. Everything looked creepy. Some
humans were standing around. They were watching him. Daniel couldn't
see their faces. "Was everything before just a dream?
Why?"
Suddenly another female voice.
"Doctor, look at
this." She said. "What?" a male voice.
"Its brain waves,
they're surging!" "Let me see!"
Voices. So many voices.
"She's right!" "Let's run another scan." "Its Mind is
racing"
"Those voices..." Daniel felt anger. "I
hope we don't lose this one!" What were all these voices talking
about?
"They're outside..."
"We can't lose
this one!"
"Where I must be"
Suddenly
everything around started to glow in an ice-blue light. He could feel
his surroundings. Glass shattered. Broken pieces were flying around
and an orange liquid float away. Coldness. Everything looked
absolutely clear now. The humans surrounded him.
"Tell Giovanni
what happened" a voice said. "Quiet! Let hear its psychic powers"
the man, a scientist, in front of him said.
"Psychic Powers?"
He recognized this voice but it felt like Daniel thought it
himself.
"For years we struggled to successfully clone a Pokemon
to prove our theories. But you're the first specimen to survive!"
Suddenly
Daniel woke up. His heart was beating fast and for a short moment he
didn't even know where he was. The sound of a shivering Pokemon
speaking in its sleep reminded him.
"Looks like you can speak"
He whispered not to wake her up. She was mumbling something about
experiments. Could it be! "Impossible… " Daniel approached her
even more trying to understand more. Her shivering got stronger and
suddenly she started to glow. Again an ice-blue light. Carefully
Daniel laid his hand on her head starting to stroke her gently.
Immediately she started to calm down. "Please don't start to purr
now" Daniel giggled tranquil.
The feeling of her short fur
beneath his fingers and her warmth made him a bit happy.
Daniel
continued this for a few minutes and suddenly she opened her eyes and
turned around to him. "Sorry! I didn't want wake you up!" She
felt her head and looked questioning.
"You had a bad dream. I
just tried to calm you." Both looked deep in each others eyes.
Daniel was astonished by the look of her blue-coloured eyes. She
hasn't said a word since she woke up but now she moved closer and
curled up beside Daniel. He looked surprised and was shocked when she
asked him to stroke her again. But somehow he was happy she said –
or better thought – this. "No problem" he whispered and again
he started to stroke her head.
What he couldn't see: A tear was
running down her white cheek. She could remember her dream and it
wasn't something she wanted to be reminded on.
Daniel felt
asleep again and luckily he had no more visionary dreams.
The
unknown Creature beside him didn't sleep. She only nestled deeper
into the cover and stared thoughtfully into the fire.
The
sun was just rising above the horizon. Everything was set in a golden
shine when a catlike creature with white and purple fur woke up. She
stood up and noticed she was alone. The big backpack and the sleeping
bag were still there but Daniel was gone. She looked around
fearfully. There was silence around. Every Pokemon around the
encampment felt she was different. And now she could remember why.
After this bad flashback-like dream she knew again why they didn't
like her. She was just a copy of a Pokemon. Like shadow an-
"Good
morning!" a loud voice yelled. She turned around and saw a tall boy
with a bucket in his hand. When he approached a smile appeared on her
face. "I already wondered whether you'll ever get awake." He
said "Where have you been?" "I got some water. Oh and
please stop this telepathic-talking." Daniel requested. "I'm
used to hear other people talking but not to get their thoughts in my
head." And demonstratively he shook his head. The creature seemed
to think a while until she finally asked „Better? "
"Yes."
Daniel said with a satisfied smile. Slowly he began to pack his
things, including the sleeping bag and the cover, into his backpack.
Suddenly he stopped. "I almost forgot. Do you remember anything
now? Especially your name. It's hard to talk with someone not
knowing his name."
She kept silent for a moment. Yes she could
remember a few things but there were still big breaks in her memory
and what she could remember wasn't something she wanted to. "I
think it's…it's Mewtu." She said after a while. "Mew-tu.
Hm. I think I've heard this before but I don't know where or in
which connection. Your name sounds like you where just a copy of
something." Daniel chuckled. Mewtu looked on the ground. After all
she was just a copy. "Hey what's wrong? I didn't want to hurt.
It was just a joke." Suddenly Daniel remembered this terrible dream
again. It wasn't his dream but hers. And if it was a flashback
instead of a dream she was really a copy. "Are you ok?" He
approached her and laid his hand on her shoulder. "I'm fine. I'm
fine… It isn't your fault." Mewtu felt how the anger rose in
her. She could remember those scientists and what they said. She was
nothing but a shadow. A copy of Mew they said. But there was still
something missing in her memory. "Well, where are you going now?"
Daniel asked after a while of silence. "I don't even know where I
came from so how should I know where to go now?" "Good point"
Daniel thought "Where are you going?" Mewtu asked. "I was on my
way to Viridian City. I hope to find a job or something else there."
He answered. He needed money. (Who doesn't? ...) "And if I don't
find anything, I'll continue to the next city and so on." Both
didn't say anything for a minute. "I'll join you." the soft
female voice beside Daniel said. "Ok…" Somehow he already had
hoped she would say that. "Let's pack up and go. We could be in
Viridian in two days"
They
were both walking through the forest trying to find the trail again.
It was already noon. "I could swear I came from this direction. But
it didn't take this much time to find you."
"We got lost,
right?"
"No! We're in the Viridian Forest."
"If you
say so…"
Two voices beneath the trees complained. A Caterpie
watched the scene from its position in a tree and it saw something
strange. It saw a human walking along with a purple-white furred
Pokemon. Even more strange was the fact that they were arguing with
each other about which direction to go. "Don't you have a map?"
"Yes I do. But we don't need a map! Especially if we don't know
where we are." The human mumbled "So we got lost." "No!"
Both sighed.
Daniel looked up when suddenly a bright blue light were shining in a tree. "Hey look! A Caterpie evolved into a Metapod." He yelled. "Why?" the female voice beside him asked "Well I think it got enough experience. I wonder how. There wasn't a fight." "Where shall we go now?" Mewtu started the discussion again. "How about this direction?" Daniel asked and pointed south. "Viridian City is in the south." "If you say so." "I do!" They continued their way south and left a very happy Metapod behind.
Hours
later. It got already dark and an ice-cold breeze flew between the
trees. Mewtu and his travel-companion had looked for a nice place to
stay over. The fact that it looked like the same from last night made
them a bit nervous. After Daniel set up their little camp they sat
down near the fire and looked into the night.
"Well…you can
remember your past, huh?" Daniel asked after a while of silence.
Mewtu closed her eyes. Yes she could remember some things but nothing
she wanted to be remembered on. "Yes." She answered slowly
"Ok.
Now that you travel along with me you could tell me about" Daniel
said with a smile on his lips. "I can only remember a few
things…"
"Go on." "I'm sure you don't want to hear
it." "I want and please don't argue about that with me." He
said impatiently.
"Well I…All I can remember is that I woke
up someday in a tank out of glass filled with a strange liquid. There
were some strange people around and I broke up the tank. They said
something about an experiment." Mewtu told him with a sad voice.
"So it's true. It was her dream and not mines. But how is that
possible?" Daniel thought
"The spoke about psychic powers and
that they cloned me from another Pokemon. They called it Mew" She
continued.
"A…clone? ... Of course! That's why your name
sounded familiar to me." Daniel said. "And what happened after
this?" "I don't know. Somehow I can't remember more. But as
you can see I am nothing more than a shadow of another Pokemon.
Nothing more than a copy" the feline creature said while a tear
were running down her cheek. Gently Daniel cleared her cheek. "Come
on. It's ok. You're an individual and no shadow." Daniel said
and lay his right arm around her waist and slowly stroke her head
with his left arm. They sat there for at least an hour. Mewtu cried
silently while Daniel did his best to calm her. When she finally
stopped Daniel stood up and unpacked his sleeping bag and the big
cover and laid it near a trunk which seemed to be familiar to him.
"I'm sure tomorrow everything looks better. He said with a played
smile." Mewtu stood up too and after Daniel took a last gulp of his
bottle of water he lay down and crawled into the sleeping bag. Mewtu
did nearly the same and nestled into the cover. "Nice dreams." he
said with sarcastically sound. "Thank you. Good night."
Well that's it, that's it.
Thx for wasting your time with this story and please be gentle with your reviews. I already wrote a second chapter but I won't publish it here until there is a need for it and I've finished chapter 3.
- Bakga -
